Perfectly private

Date:09/12/08
Time:6:05am
Place:Home



Oops. I missed a blog entry yesterday. I'm pretty annoyed with myself for that. I went to work yesterday on two hours of sleep. I could not fall asleep for the life of me. I tossed and turn, stared at the clock until 4am. At 6am I had to get up and begin my day. Working was a complete struggle yesterday but I made it through the day. I kept telling myself when I get home I can just pass out and catch up on my sleep. And that I did. So although I am refreshed and ready to go. That doesn't make up for the fact that I missed a blog entry which is a daily assignment. I'm going to do two blogs today in hopes that it makes up for the missed one. But it may not because that doesn't make up for a missed day, just a missed blog.
This weekend I need to grab all of the seeds from my impatiens. I planted so many of them this past spring. My cousin came up with the idea because we payed a fortune for our flowers this year. We shopped around but ended up buying the most expensive ones at the last nursery we went to. I guess we just were tired of going from place to place. The seed pods are so strange. As soon as you pick them off, they burst open and the seeds falls out. So you need to remove them very gently and drop them into a cup. If you do it gently enough they won't burst until they are in the cup. But some of them were lost because they burst open to soon. What an amazing thing. The slightest touch could make them open up. When it happens it makes a popping sound and the seeds just spray out almost like a tiny little water hose. All my life I had no idea that this happened. I never even realized that these flowers had seed pods like that. It just boggles my mind how nature is so perfectly private sometimes. Things like thunder and lightening are so obvious and loud to all of us. But something as simple as flowers reinventing themselves is so quiet and private. I can't wait until I can plant them next spring to watch them grow all over again. I wonder how many seasons I will be able to keep planting seeds from these original plantings? It's as if they will remain through their own generations just like a family. They grew so fast and have gotten so big and beautiful. But fall is sneaking up on us rather quickly and soon they will see their last day. However, if I can get all of the pods or at least some of them. These very same flowers will have a chance to come back to life next spring. It's funny how you literally learn something new every single day If you choose to.
Well, now it's time to get ready for work.
I shall return later